I have a Gateway 6520Gz laptop with Centrino Mobile wireless technology. My wireless network hardware is Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG. My OS is FC5 with kernel 2.6.17 I upgraded from kernel 2.6.15 thinking that if I ugraded my kernel my problems with wireless will be all over. I cant get the wireless to work. Can anyone point me in the right directions on how to get this working? Can any one point me to a previous (legitimate and relevant) post or website that can show me the way? Thank You!

Why not tell us exactly what you did to configure the card? What access point are you connecting to? Are you using encryption? Are you using wpa_supplicant? What errors are you getting (have you checked the logs, e.g. /var/log/messages?) And what have you already tried, to solve this problem? (besides upgrading the kernel)

You need to grab the v3.0 of the the firmware from:

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

and extract the firmware to /lib/firmware/

the new kernel is compiled with version 1.1.1 of the intel driver and requires the updated firmware.

Hope this helps!

I started out with installing FC5 kernel 2.6.15 last week. Then I thought if I simply selected from the desktop drop down menu, system, administration, network and then add a wireless device on the hardware tab this should work but then I found out that the wireless adapter I had (Intel Corporation Pro Wireless 2200BG) was not located in the drop down menu. So I went straight to google and found "http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ipw2200". From there I learned that I needed:

1)ipw2200 driver: 1.1.0
Following the instructions from the above referenced link I got the following results below:

[root@localhost Desktop]# ls
foo-007fdffda6.desktop ieee80211-1.1.14 ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz
gegl-0026382af3.desktop ieee80211-1.1.14.tgz
gegl-0049640417.desktop ipw2200-1.1.3.tgz
[root@localhost Desktop]# tar xzvf ipw2200-1.1.3.tgz
ipw2200-1.1.3/
ipw2200-1.1.3/GIT_SHA1
ipw2200-1.1.3/ipw2200.c
ipw2200-1.1.3/ipw2200.h
ipw2200-1.1.3/in-tree/
ipw2200-1.1.3/in-tree/Kconfig.ipw2200
ipw2200-1.1.3/LICENSE
ipw2200-1.1.3/CHANGES
ipw2200-1.1.3/FILES
ipw2200-1.1.3/ISSUES
ipw2200-1.1.3/Makefile
ipw2200-1.1.3/dvals
ipw2200-1.1.3/idvals
ipw2200-1.1.3/load
ipw2200-1.1.3/unload
ipw2200-1.1.3/status
ipw2200-1.1.3/config
ipw2200-1.1.3/restart
ipw2200-1.1.3/verify_wifi_hw
ipw2200-1.1.3/remove-old
ipw2200-1.1.3/filters
ipw2200-1.1.3/ipwstats.c
ipw2200-1.1.3/README.ipw2200
ipw2200-1.1.3/INSTALL
[root@localhost Desktop]# cd ipw2200-1.1.3
[root@localhost ipw2200-1.1.3]# make

ERROR: ieee80211.h not found in '/lib/modules/2.6.17/include'.

You need to install the ieee80211 subsystem from http://ieee80211.sf.net
and point this build to the location where you installed those sources, eg.:

% make IEEE80211_INC=/usr/src/ieee80211/

will look for ieee80211.h in /usr/src/ieee80211/net/

make: *** [check_inc] Error 1
[root@localhost ipw2200-1.1.3]# make install
mkdir -p /home/oharris/Desktop/ipw2200-1.1.3/tmp/.tmp_versions
cp /lib/modules/2.6.17/net/ieee80211/.tmp_versions/*.mod /home/oharris/Desktop/ipw2200-1.1.3/tmp/.tmp_versions
cp: cannot stat `/lib/modules/2.6.17/net/ieee80211/.tmp_versions/*.mod': No such file or directory
make: [modules] Error 1 (ignored)
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17/build M=/home/oharris/Desktop/ipw2200-1.1.3 MODVERDIR=/home/oharris/Desktop/ipw2200-1.1.3/tmp/.tmp_versions modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.17/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2
[root@localhost ipw2200-1.1.3]#

2)firmware: 2.4

Following the instructions from the above referenced link I got the following results below:

[root@localhost Desktop]# ls
foo-007fdffda6.desktop ieee80211-1.1.14 ipw2200-1.1.3.tgz
gegl-0026382af3.desktop ieee80211-1.1.14.tgz ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz
gegl-0049640417.desktop ipw2200-1.1.3
[root@localhost Desktop]# tar xzvf ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz -C /lib/firmware
ipw2200-fw-3.0/
ipw2200-fw-3.0/ipw2200-bss.fw
ipw2200-fw-3.0/ipw2200-sniffer.fw
ipw2200-fw-3.0/LICENSE.ipw2200-fw
ipw2200-fw-3.0/ipw2200-ibss.fw
[root@localhost Desktop]# ls
foo-007fdffda6.desktop ieee80211-1.1.14 ipw2200-1.1.3.tgz
gegl-0026382af3.desktop ieee80211-1.1.14.tgz ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz
gegl-0049640417.desktop ipw2200-1.1.3
[root@localhost Desktop]#


3)ieee80211 stack: 1.1.12

Following the instructions from the above referenced link I got the following results below:

[root@localhost ~]# cd /home/oharris/Desktop/
[root@localhost Desktop]# ls
foo-007fdffda6.desktop gegl-0049640417.desktop ipw2200-1.1.3.tgz
gegl-0026382af3.desktop ieee80211-1.1.14.tgz ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz
[root@localhost Desktop]# tar xzvf ieee80211-1.1.14.tgz
ieee80211-1.1.14/
ieee80211-1.1.14/GIT_SHA1
ieee80211-1.1.14/in-tree/
ieee80211-1.1.14/in-tree/Makefile
ieee80211-1.1.14/in-tree/Kconfig
ieee80211-1.1.14/ieee80211_crypt.c
ieee80211-1.1.14/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.c
ieee80211-1.1.14/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c
ieee80211-1.1.14/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
ieee80211-1.1.14/ieee80211_geo.c
ieee80211-1.1.14/ieee80211_module.c
ieee80211-1.1.14/ieee80211_rx.c
ieee80211-1.1.14/ieee80211_tx.c
ieee80211-1.1.14/ieee80211_wx.c
ieee80211-1.1.14/net/
ieee80211-1.1.14/net/ieee80211.h
ieee80211-1.1.14/net/ieee80211_crypt.h
ieee80211-1.1.14/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
ieee80211-1.1.14/LICENSE
ieee80211-1.1.14/CHANGES
ieee80211-1.1.14/INSTALL
ieee80211-1.1.14/Makefile
ieee80211-1.1.14/idvals
ieee80211-1.1.14/remove-old
[root@localhost Desktop]# cd ieee80211-1.1.14
[root@localhost ieee80211-1.1.14]# ls
CHANGES ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c ieee80211_tx.c Makefile
GIT_SHA1 ieee80211_crypt_wep.c ieee80211_wx.c net
idvals ieee80211_geo.c INSTALL remove-old
ieee80211_crypt.c ieee80211_module.c in-tree
ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.c ieee80211_rx.c LICENSE
[root@localhost ieee80211-1.1.14]# make
Checking in /lib/modules/2.6.17 for ieee80211 components...
find: /lib/modules/2.6.17/build/: No such file or directory
/lib/modules/2.6.17/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.ko
Above files found. Remove? [y],n y

find: /lib/modules/2.6.17/build/: No such file or directory
egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.17/build//.config: No such file or directory
egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.17/build//include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
find: /lib/modules/2.6.17/build/: No such file or directory
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17/build M=/home/oharris/Desktop/ieee80211-1.1.14 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.17/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2

[root@localhost ieee80211-1.1.14]# make install
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17/build M=/home/oharris/Desktop/ieee80211-1.1.14 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.17/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2
[root@localhost ieee80211-1.1.14]#

Then I tried this.......

[root@localhost Desktop]# modprobe ipw2200
[root@localhost Desktop]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

Then dmessage gave me this (partially)


P
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 855 Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 8060K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ICH4: chipset revision 3
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1810-0x1817, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1818-0x181f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IC25N060ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: QSI DVD+/-RW SDW-082, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/7884KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:02.0 [107b:0460]
Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:02.0, mfunc 0x01ac1b22, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x00d8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x3000 - 0x3fff
cs: IO port probe 0x3000-0x3fff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xe0200000 - 0xe02fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x30000000 - 0x31ffffff
usbcore: registered new driver libusual
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 3
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
LID0 LANC USB0 USB1 MODM
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 292k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 384k
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x23aeb3, caps: 0xa04713/0x10008
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
audit(1153956055.860:2): enforcing=1 old_enforcing=0 auid=4294967295
security: 3 users, 6 roles, 1161 types, 135 bools, 1 sens, 256 cats
security: 55 classes, 38679 rules
SELinux: Completing initialization.

hw_random: cannot enable RNG, aborting
b44.c:v1.00 (Apr 7, 2006)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:e0:b8:91:7f:63
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54086 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
PCI: Enabling bus mastering for device 0000:00:1f.6
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
MC'97 0 converters and GPIO not ready (0x1)
cs: IO port probe 0x3d4-0x4ff: excluding 0x4cc-0x4d3
cs: IO port probe 0x3c0-0x3d2: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: excluding 0x800-0x807
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.1.1
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0x00001820
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 11, io base 0x00001840
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:04.0 failed with error -5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Calling quirk c1189536 for 0000:02:02.2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 10, io mem 0xe0100000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[e0209000-e02097ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e0b8036000cd20]
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: yes post: no)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
Adding 1015800k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1015800k
SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (4023 buckets, 32184 max) - 224 bytes per conntrack
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7
Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.1
SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses genfs_contexts
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
ppdev0: claim the port first
ppdev1: claim the port first
ppdev2: claim the port first
ppdev3: claim the port first
audit(1153970513.280:4): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2282 comm="Xorg" scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=process
audit(1153970513.280:5): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2282 comm="Xorg" scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=process
audit(1153970513.280:6): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2282 comm="Xorg" scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=process
audit(1153970513.280:7): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2282 comm="Xorg" scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=process
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[drm] Initialized i915 1.4.0 20060119 on minor 0
[drm] Initialized i915 1.4.0 20060119 on minor 1
audit(1153970537.926:8): avc: granted { execstack } for pid=2399 comm="metacity" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1153970537.926:9): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2399 comm="metacity" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1153970539.286:10): avc: denied { use } for pid=2425 comm="bluez-pin" name="[7809]" dev=pipefs ino=7809 scontext=user_u:system_r:bluetooth_helper_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=fd
audit(1153970539.286:11): avc: denied { use } for pid=2425 comm="bluez-pin" name="[7809]" dev=pipefs ino=7809 scontext=user_u:system_r:bluetooth_helper_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=fd
audit(1153970542.870:12): avc: granted { execstack } for pid=2413 comm="nautilus" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1153970542.870:13): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2413 comm="nautilus" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1153970542.870:14): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2413 comm="nautilus" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1153970542.894:15): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2413 comm="nautilus" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1153970542.894:16): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2413 comm="nautilus" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1153970543.490:17): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2413 comm="nautilus" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
audit(1153970733.162:18): avc: denied { write } for pid=2676 comm="ifconfig" name="[9064]" dev=pipefs ino=9064 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970733.162:19): avc: denied { write } for pid=2676 comm="ifconfig" name="[9064]" dev=pipefs ino=9064 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970733.162:20): avc: denied { read } for pid=2676 comm="ifconfig" name="[9018]" dev=pipefs ino=9018 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970733.162:21): avc: denied { write } for pid=2676 comm="ifconfig" name="[9018]" dev=pipefs ino=9018 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970733.162:22): avc: denied { read } for pid=2676 comm="ifconfig" name="[9019]" dev=pipefs ino=9019 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970733.162:23): avc: denied { write } for pid=2676 comm="ifconfig" name="[9019]" dev=pipefs ino=9019 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970733.162:24): avc: denied { read } for pid=2676 comm="ifconfig" name="[9020]" dev=pipefs ino=9020 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970733.162:25): avc: denied { write } for pid=2676 comm="ifconfig" name="[9020]" dev=pipefs ino=9020 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
audit(1153970737.210:26): avc: denied { write } for pid=2703 comm="ifconfig" name="[9064]" dev=pipefs ino=9064 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.210:27): avc: denied { write } for pid=2703 comm="ifconfig" name="[9064]" dev=pipefs ino=9064 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.210:28): avc: denied { read } for pid=2703 comm="ifconfig" name="[9018]" dev=pipefs ino=9018 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.210:29): avc: denied { write } for pid=2703 comm="ifconfig" name="[9018]" dev=pipefs ino=9018 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.210:30): avc: denied { read } for pid=2703 comm="ifconfig" name="[9019]" dev=pipefs ino=9019 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.210:31): avc: denied { write } for pid=2703 comm="ifconfig" name="[9019]" dev=pipefs ino=9019 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.210:32): avc: denied { read } for pid=2703 comm="ifconfig" name="[9020]" dev=pipefs ino=9020 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.210:33): avc: denied { write } for pid=2703 comm="ifconfig" name="[9020]" dev=pipefs ino=9020 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.238:34): avc: denied { write } for pid=2714 comm="ip" name="[9064]" dev=pipefs ino=9064 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.238:35): avc: denied { write } for pid=2714 comm="ip" name="[9064]" dev=pipefs ino=9064 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.238:36): avc: denied { read } for pid=2714 comm="ip" name="[9018]" dev=pipefs ino=9018 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.238:37): avc: denied { write } for pid=2714 comm="ip" name="[9018]" dev=pipefs ino=9018 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.238:38): avc: denied { read } for pid=2714 comm="ip" name="[9019]" dev=pipefs ino=9019 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.238:39): avc: denied { write } for pid=2714 comm="ip" name="[9019]" dev=pipefs ino=9019 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.238:40): avc: denied { read } for pid=2714 comm="ip" name="[9020]" dev=pipefs ino=9020 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
audit(1153970737.238:41): avc: denied { write } for pid=2714 comm="ip" name="[9020]" dev=pipefs ino=9020 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[root@localhost Desktop]#

I'm using a d-link 524 access point with encryption to connect my laptop to. The wpa_supplicant I'm not sure about.
This is all I have done, this is all I know to attempt to correct the wireless issue.

The only suggestion given to me thus far was to update the firmware and place it in the appropriate directory. I did that but as can be seen from this lengthy thread I have tons of errors happening and I dont know why they are happening after I followed the instructions.

So now what do I do? Did I skip any steps? Forgot to do something else? Someone please take on this challenge and let me know what's wrong.

Just to confirm, did you have wireless working with 2.6.15 kernel?

Under Fedora Core 5, the ipw2200 driver is included within the kernel, to activate all you need to do is grab the appropriate firmware version and extract to /lib/firmware and then restart.

With the newer kernels 2.6.17 Fedora started including version 1.1.1 of the Intel driver (for ipw2200/ipw2915 hardware only, and NOT the ipw 3945 hardware) which requires v3.0 of the Intel firmware. Again, all that "should" be required is extract to new firmware to /lib/firmware and restart.

To confirm what type of wireless card you have try doing a lspci -v and determine what wireless hardware you have. Here is a portion of my lspci output

Hope this helps!

Wireless was not working when I was using kernel 2.16.15 but then again I dont think I was placing the firmware in the lib/firmware directory. I will try again using kernel 2.6.15 then using kernel 2.6.17 using your advice and then let you know how it comes out.


Provided below is my output from lspci -v. This is my confirmation that I have PRO/Wireless 2200BG hardware.


02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2701
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at e0208000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

What firmware version do I need to place in /lib/firmware for kernel 2.6.15?

firmware v1.2 or firmware v2.0 or firmware v2.1 or firmware v2.2 or firmware v2.3 or firmware v2.4 or firmware v3.0

What firmware version do I need to place in /lib/firmware for kernle 2.6.17?

firmware v1.2 or firmware v2.0 or firmware v2.1 or firmware v2.2 or firmware v2.3 or firmware v2.4 or firmware v3.0


The url http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ipw2200 suggest that I need not only the firmware but also the ipw2200 module and the ieee802.11 stack. Do I not need these as the website suggest and in what directories should I replace them if I did in fact need them?

For the 2.6.15 kernel use v2.4 of the firmware.

For the 2.6.17 kernel use v3.0 of the firmware.

All you need is the firmware and should not need any other files, all of the other files are included within the kernel already.

ok I placed firmware v2.4 into /lib/firmare and did # tar xzvf ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz then restarted the laptop. I opened a terminal as SU - then typed "iwconfig eth1" and got back eth1 no such device.

So then I went to the desktop drop down menu and selected System--->Administration----->Network. Under the Devices tab I see eth0 which is active (this is my LAN). Under the Hardware tab I see eth1 (Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG) and eth0 (Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX).

When went back to the Devices tab I selected new, wireless connection, forward, Other Wireless Card, and this is where things are confusing.....I dont see an adapter that matches Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG. Only intel related adapters I have are EtherExpress Pro 100B, EtherExpress/100, Ether Express/1000 gigabit. So where do I go from here?

Okay, lets start from the beginning....

To confirm which kernel version are you currently running?
Can you post the contents of dmesg?

[oharris@localhost ~]$ dmesg | more
Linux version 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 (bhcompile@hs20-bc1-3.build.redhat.com) (gcc ver
sion 4.1.0 20060304 (Red Hat 4.1.0-3)) #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ce000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001f6e0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f6e0000 - 000000001f6ec000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f6ec000 - 000000001f700000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f700000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffffc00 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
502MB LOWMEM available.
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
On node 0 totalpages: 128736
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 124640 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 GATEWA ) @ 0x000f69f0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 GATEWA M360 0x20050224 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1f6e76c5
ACPI: FADT (v001 GATEWA M360 0x20050224 PTL 0x00000050) @ 0x1f6ebed2
ACPI: BOOT (v001 GATEWA M360 0x20050224 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1f6ebfd8
ACPI: SSDT (v001 GATEWA M360 0x00002000 INTL 0x20030224) @ 0x1f6e76f5
ACPI: DSDT (v001 GATEWA M360 0x20050224 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:df800000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (013f2000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c03d4000 soft=c03d3000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 1700.203 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 504988k/514944k available (1914k kernel code, 9416k reserved, 774k data, 176k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3404.61 BogoMIPS (lpj=6809232)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: afe9f9bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000180 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: afe9f9bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000180 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: After all inits, caps: afe9f1bf 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000180 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz stepping 06
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c20)
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 1645k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9c2, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Boot video device is 0000:00:02.0
PCI quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 1180-11bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
PCI: Bus #03 (-#06) may be hidden behind transparent bridge #02 (-#03) (try 'pci=assign-busses')
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *5)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *10)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 10) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs *10)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [H_EC] (gpe 29) interrupt mode.
ACPI: Power Resource [CFAN] (off)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 7 devices
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Bus 3, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:02.0
IO window: 00003000-000030ff
IO window: 00003400-000034ff
PREFETCH window: 30000000-31ffffff
MEM window: 34000000-35ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: 3000-3fff
MEM window: e0200000-e02fffff
PREFETCH window: 30000000-31ffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:02.0 to 64
Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1154041447.512:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key EE596B44DDA71123
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: Fan [FAN1] (off)
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (64 C)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 855 Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 8060K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ICH4: chipset revision 3
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1810-0x1817, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1818-0x181f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IC25N060ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: QSI DVD+/-RW SDW-082, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/7884KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:02.0 [107b:0460]
Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:02.0, mfunc 0x01ac1b22, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x00d8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x3000 - 0x3fff
cs: IO port probe 0x3000-0x3fff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xe0200000 - 0xe02fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x30000000 - 0x31ffffff
usbcore: registered new driver libusual
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
NET: Registered protocol family 2
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 327680 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
LID0 LANC USB0 USB1 MODM
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 359k
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x23aeb3, caps: 0xa04713/0x10008
device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
security: 3 users, 6 roles, 1161 types, 135 bools, 1 sens, 256 cats
security: 55 classes, 38679 rules
SELinux: Completing initialization.
SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks.
SELinux: initialized (dev dm-0, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev debugfs, type debugfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev inotifyfs, type inotifyfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
hw_random: cannot enable RNG, aborting
b44.c:v0.97 (Nov 30, 2005)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:e0:b8:91:7f:63
ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw2200: Unknown symbol escape_essid
ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw2200: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw2200: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54083 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64
cs: IO port probe 0x3d4-0x4ff: excluding 0x4cc-0x4d3
cs: IO port probe 0x3c0-0x3d2: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: excluding 0x800-0x807
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
MC'97 0 converters and GPIO not ready (0x1)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 10, io mem 0xe0100000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0x00001820
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 11, io base 0x00001840
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[e0209000-e02097ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e0b8036000cd20]
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: yes post: no)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
Adding 1015800k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1015800k
SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (4023 buckets, 32184 max) - 232 bytes per conntrack
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7
Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.1
SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses genfs_contexts
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
ppdev0: claim the port first
ppdev1: claim the port first
ppdev2: claim the port first
ppdev3: claim the port first
audit(1154055909.080:2): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2251 comm="Xorg" scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=process
audit(1154055909.080:3): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2251 comm="Xorg" scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=process
audit(1154055909.080:4): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2251 comm="Xorg" scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=process
audit(1154055909.080:5): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2251 comm="Xorg" scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=process
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[drm] Initialized i915 1.4.0 20060119 on minor 0
[drm] Initialized i915 1.4.0 20060119 on minor 1
audit(1154055936.746:6): avc: granted { execstack } for pid=2367 comm="metacity" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1154055936.746:7): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2367 comm="metacity" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1154055938.802:8): avc: denied { use } for pid=2401 comm="bluez-pin" name="[7948]" dev=pipefs ino=7948 scontext=user_u:system_r:bluetooth_helper_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=fd
audit(1154055938.802:9): avc: denied { use } for pid=2401 comm="bluez-pin" name="[7948]" dev=pipefs ino=7948 scontext=user_u:system_r:bluetooth_helper_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=fd
audit(1154055943.422:10): avc: granted { execstack } for pid=2382 comm="nautilus" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1154055943.422:11): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2382 comm="nautilus" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1154055943.422:12): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2382 comm="nautilus" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1154055943.442:13): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2382 comm="nautilus" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1154055943.442:14): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2382 comm="nautilus" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
audit(1154055943.690:15): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2382 comm="nautilus" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process

I'm having the exact same issue, have v2.4 of the firmware in the firmware directory and can't seem to enable the card. I keep also getting that the /build directory is not present. Just thought I'd let you know that I'm working on the issue as well. If I come up with anything (don't get your hopes up....<---Linux Noob) I'll let you know.

I went back to windows but I will make an effort to get wireless working on linux again I think there are clues in the ipw2200 driver: 1.1.0
firmware: 2.4
ieee80211 stack: 1.1.12 readme files

What worked for me (FC5, 2.6.17, 3.0 ipw2200 fw) is copying the *.fw files from /lib/firmware/ipw2200-fw-3.0/ to /lib/firmware; then rebooting; even so modprobe ipw2200 + ifup eth1 failed as before; but modprobe -r ipw2200; modprobe ipw2200; ifup eth1 then worked. None of that makes particular sense to me, and I haven't read the source code, but there it is. (It's in there somewhere; keep trying.)

Hi all
i solved this problem before
you just need large the kernel memory size (2.6.15) from 4k to 16 kB and then copy the firmware to
/lib/firmware/ and then reboot your machine and you will get it work